Hope for Meeting Maker and my iPhone?
Hope dawns for more easily getting my Meeting Maker calendar onto my iPhone . . . or does it?
The latest version of NotifyLink for Meeting Maker includes support for the iPhone: ta dah! We use Notify at Simmons to synchronize Blackberries with Meeting Maker. Supporting Notify on the Blackberries has taken an enormous amount of our time, actually. And it hasn't been problem-free.
But my iPhone . . . that would be a dream come true!
According to the documentation, though, Notify has you set up your link to Meeting Maker through the "Exchange" option under "Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars." However, when you set up your iPhone for use with Exchange, Exchange takes over your iPhone's calendar and doesn't allow synchronization with other calendars. If that doesn't kill the deal for you (it really does for me), then also note that you can't invite guests to Meeting Maker meetings, you can only create events that appear on your own calendar.
See, for example, the caveats on Illinois State University's instructions for Exchange synchronization.
From my brief surf about it, these problems appear to be due to Apple's implementation of some underlying standard for Exchange (a Microsoft standard, or a true standard?).
Given the problems Notify upgrades have caused for us, we can't upgrade the server until we've had time to do thorough testing, which means well after classes start since we're a little busy right now.
Sigh. Just me and that very old applescript, plugging along. Looks like we'll be together a long time. Hope it keeps working.
Posted: August 15, 2008 8:26 pm | 0 comments
Tags: Calendar synchronization, iPhone, Meeting Maker, Notify
